Post surgical lymphedema: Iatrogenic or preexisting disease?

Lymphology

Volumn 31, Issue 1 SUPPL., 1998, Pages 562-564

  Dellacha A ^a   Fulcheri, E ^a   Boccardo, F ^a   Campisi, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

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